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immediatism

[ ih-mee-dee-uh-tiz-uhm ]
/ ɪˈmi di əˌtɪz əm /
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noun U.S. History.
a policy for the immediate abolition of slavery.
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Origin of immediatism

First recorded in 1815–25; immediate + -ism

OTHER WORDS FROM immediatism

im·me·di·a·tist, noun

Words nearby immediatism

immediate, immediate annuity, immediate constituent, immediate family, immediately, immediatism, immedicable, Immelmann, Immelmann turn, immemorial, immense
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How to use immediatism in a sentence

  • Garrison, consequently rejected gradualism as a weapon, and took up instead the great and quickening doctrine of immediatism.

    William Lloyd Garrison|Archibald H. Grimke

  • These English abolitionists were coming to "immediatism" from 1824, and their influence told in America.

    The Negro and the Nation|George S. Merriam

  • Their doctrine of immediatism—if we may invent a new term—is always one and the same, and always has been.

    Abolition a Sedition|Geo. W. Donohue

  • They were all his, but there was another besides—immediatism.

    William Lloyd Garrison|Archibald H. Grimke
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